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This in depth analysis updates a previous report commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs and describes the most relevant developments in the period 2018-2022 in chronological order and then draws conclusions which include a systemic view of the current institutional dynamics, a provisional legal analysis on the basis of existing rules and policy suggestions.

This EPRS paper analyses progress in attaining the policy agenda set out by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and her College of Commissioners. It looks in particular at the state of play in respect of delivery on its six key priorities. Concretely, EPRS finds that, ahead of the 2022 State of the Union address, of the over 500 initiatives foreshadowed by the von der Leyen Commission on taking office or since (521), almost two thirds (330) have already been submitted and, ...

This document provides summarised and tabular information on the Recovery and Resilience Plans. It will be regularly updated.

Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis and Commissioner Gentiloni have been invited to the seventh Recovery and Resilience Dialogue under the Recovery and Resilience Facility Regulation. The previous RRD took place on 2 May. This briefing first presents a state of play of the Recovery and Resilience Plans and the impacts of the July partial recalculation of grants’ allocation. It then focuses on the Parliament’s resolution of 23 June and the Commission’s Review Report of end July. A third section deals ...

This briefing presents a “gap analysis” identifying economic and structural challenges remaining for Member States beyond implementation of their Recovery and Resilience Plans. The annex compiles the gaps the Commission identified in the 2022 European Semester country reports and matches those with the 2022 Country Specific Recommendations addressed to the Member States. It further displays additional challenges EGOV identified in publicly available information.

This briefing provides an overview of the European Parliament’s concerns as expressed in its 29 July 2022 Resolution, as regards implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility. It does so by providing two tables - one matching the Parliament’s resolution and the Commission’s article 16 Review Report and a second one pointing to public information available addressing such concerns.

This note presents selected information on the current status of the EU economic governance procedures and related relevant information in view of an economic dialogue and exchange of views with Fernando Medina, Minister of Finance of Portugal, in the ECON committee of the European Parliament. The invitation for an exchange of views is in accordance with the EU economic governance framework. The last exchange of views with the Portuguese authorities took place in November 2016.

This paper provides a summary of recent economic, financial and budgetary decisions and developments following President Vladimir Putin’s decision of 24 February to start a military attack against Ukraine. It includes recent information relating to the EU sanctions regime, recent economic estimates, and policies supporting economic and financial resilience, including the coordination of national economic and fiscal measures. It also highlights policy recommendations made in the public domain to mitigate ...

his in-depth analysis, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the JURI Committee, looks at the use of data for the purpose of regulatory assessment/evaluation. The author finds that data is needed to support evidence-based regulation, that information technologies, and in particular AI, can enable a more extensive and beneficial use of data, and that the use of data in ex-post evaluations can improve the regulatory ...

This paper has been produced by the Ex-post Evaluation Unit of the Directorate for Impact Assessment and European Added Value, within the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) of the Secretariat of the European Parliament, as a regional evaluation in parallel to the EPRS 2022 Peace and Security Outlook. It has been drafted as a contribution to the Normandy World Peace Forum taking place in September 2022. The paper provides the background to EU relations with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine ...